Speaking at a Swedish health conference last year, the Blues medical expert opened up about her work. Here's what she had to say:

Pressure in football

“I used to work in an emergency department and, of course, there’s a different pressure there - it’s life and death. It’s really helped me deal with the pressure I deal with now.

"I wouldn’t say there’s any less pressure, just a different kind. If you don’t feel the pressure you’re not doing your job properly."

Communication is key

“The biggest challenge is maintaining communication between all our parties. We have a big media department, the management department and all the players.

“Of course, you’ve got to have your knowledge base and keep up to date with new treatments and techniques, but maintaining communication with colleagues, the players and management is the most important thing.

"There are a huge number of players and you need to keep tabs on all of them. That’s the biggest challenge but part of the exciting of it, how everything comes together to produce the result you want at the end."

Women in sport

“I was a 16-year-old girl watching Champions League games and I really wanted to be the guy that ran on the field. I was lucky because I knew what I wanted to do - there was on no one else doing it.

"Eighty or ninety per cent of the fan mail I receive is from young women wanting to know what I do. Women are interested and it’s our job not to discourage them.

"Diversity has proven to work in the business world and medicine has mirrored that in hospital but is yet to do that in football.

"Women want to be leaders. In every program I watch the female doctor is either hyper-sexualised and she gets off with Tom Cruise and it's all happy endings or she's not present or lesbian.

"This is what I grew up with what the perceptions of female doctors doctors were. This needs to change. They need to be ass-kicking women who are not behaving about men, doing a really good job that save the day."